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10 Dec 2016 3:50:41am

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@ Murray Alfredson The point I am making Murray, is that all of these Abrahamic religions ( okay I dont know too much about Mandaeism, Karaism or the Samaritans and the Rastafarians seem peaceful enough lately )have awful, awful bigoted, blood thirsty elements which are supported by the very absolutist exclusivist nature of their religions. I chose to cite Jewish extremists because the Authors seem to be trumpeting the old meme that its Saintly Jews v Awful Arabs, when demonstrably they are just as good or bad as the Christians and each other. Everybody says, quite rightly, that its just a few outliers that subscribe to these views, that most Abrahamic devotees are civilised normal people. The point is that while there may small numbers of terrorists there seem to be big numbers of sympathisers. Every polemicist for these religions points out that what nice people they actually are. This is correct I have never met a Christian, Jew, or Muslim ( or Rastafarian for that matter) who was an inherently bad person. I believe its time to struggle against the propagation of all these ancient Arahamic tribal myth machines as the next step in civilising humanity. Shedding this ativistic armour of dead clap trap is not forgetting who you are but becoming who you really are .A wise Buddhist once said to me all religions suffer equally from illusion even Buddhism, I think realising this is a good place to start combating the tribal war so tragically beloved by Abrahamic devotees.